10-Yard Fight is an American football game released by Irem in 1983, with a side view and scrolling that follows the play in progress. It was a pioneer in using digitized voice (the classic pre-snap shout) and in translating the sport's rules into simple arcade mechanics: pick a play, run, dodge. Nintendo licensed it for the NES shortly after, which helped cement its place in the genre's history. Today it's appreciated more as an archaeological piece than as a demanding game: the depth is minimal compared to what came later in arcade sports. But for anyone who wants to see where modern sports simulators came from, it's a required — and brief — stop.
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